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CONTENTS THIS MONTH'S PULP IT is w rit te n by David Pryce-J ones, author of fiction and non-fiction , including Tire Closed Circle: A11 l111erpretntio11 of the Arabs. ALISTAIR. HOR E's last book , How Far Jrot/1 A usterlitz? Napoleo11 18051815, is ava ilabl e from Papermac at £ 12 . His Seve11 A<~es of Paris will be pub l ished by M acmi ll an next autumn. While on warti m e military service, he was attached to M IS's Midd le East branch. CAROL INE MOOil..EHEAD i s the autho r of Ou11a11t 's Drea m: ~Var , Swit zerlaud artd th e Hi story of th e Red Cross and, most recentl y, Iris Origo. She is working on a l ife of Martha Gellhorn. VER.NON BOGDAN R. is the author of Devolutiou i11 th e Uuited Ki11gdom. H e is c urren tl y writi ng a book about the British onst i tution for A li en Lane The Penguin Press . RI CHARD GOTT is working on a book about Cuba for Yale University Press. jE SS ICA MA s Han<~ing Fire is avai lable in paperback thi s month from Allison & Busby. J OHN McEwE 's monograph of M ic h ae l San del will be published in th e Spring. HER. IDAN M ORLEY is the drama c riti c of the l 11t ematio11al H era ld Trib1111 e. Hi s authorised Giel g ud biography, j olt11 C, has sold out of three hardback editions this year and will shortly be avai lable as a paperbac k and an audiotape. His pertator nr th e Theatre has just been publi shed by Oberon. PULPIT PATRIOTS & T RAITORS BIOGRAPHY ADVENTURERS INTERVIEW BELLES LETTRES 1 DAVID PR.YCE-J ONES 4 5 7 V ER.NON BOGDA NOR Ch11rchill Roy J enkins ALUN CHALFONT The Full Monty: Morttgomery of Alamei11 1887-1942 Nige l H ami l ton FRA IS KIN G Arrtlrony Blunt: Hi s Lives Miranda Carter 9 BRENDA MADD OX The Partklt~~rsts Martin Pugh 10 RI CHARD GOTT Sen ior Service Carlo Feltrine lli 12 ANDR.EW LYCETT Peggy Cuggenheim: The L ife of an Art Addict Anton G ill 13 SHER.I DAN M ORl.EY Stan and Ollie: The Root s of Co tnedy Simo n Louvi s h 14 SARAH ANDERSON Cherry Sara Wheeler 16 J W M THOMPSON Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Po st J D F ]on es 18 SEBA TIAN SHAKESPEARE TALKS TO j G BALLARD 23 DJ TAYLOR Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984 J a mes Lees-Miln e 24 J ESS ICA MA N Ups and Dow11 s Frances Partridge 25 PETER WA SH IN GTON The Plrilosop lry of Sa rttll e! Becket f J ohn Ca lder Ho w It Wa s: A Mwroir of amttel Beckett Anne Atik LETTER FROM YEMEN 27 TIM MACKI TOSH-SMITH OPPRESSION MEMOIRS 28 AID AN HARTL EY Tire W ee kertders Alex Garland , W F Deedes, l rvin e Welsh , Giles Foden , Victoria Glendinning , Tony H awks, Andrew O'Hagan 29 j ONAT HAN MlR KY Burma: T he C urse of I ndependence S h e lb y Tu c ker Th e H eart Must Break: The Fig ht for D e111ocra cy and Tmth in B11rma J ames Mawdsley 30 ALISTAIR H ORNE Open Secret: The Autobiography of Tire Former Direc tor - Cweral of M I5 Stella Rimington 32 ALAN WATKIN S Betty Bootlrroyd: Tir e Autobiography 33 ANTH ONY DANIEl.S Uncle Turtgst en: Memoirs of a Clremical Boyhood Oliver Sacks 35 CAROLINE MOOREHEAD The Dress ing Statio11: A Surgeon's Odyssey J onathan Kaplan 35 CHRISTOPHER 0NDAATJE Wildlife Wars Richard Leak ey a n d Virginia Morell 37 jAMES DELl GPOLE Daydrea /11 Beli eve r Hu gh M assingberd Editor: NA CV SLADEK Depwy Editor: THOMAS HODGKI SON Editorial Assistatlf: CHARLIE AMPBELL General Assistant: ELEANOR PEERS Comribu ting Editor: SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEAlli Brtsirtess & Advertisi11g Manager: R.OBERT POSNER Fou11dirtg Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Foundi11g Fat/r er: AUBERON WAUGH Cover illit stmtioll by Clrris Ridde/1 Isme no. 281 LITERARY REVIEW November 2001
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NOVEMBER 2001 EXHJBITION l l lSTORY GENERAL RESURRECTION FICTION AUDIOBOOK SILENCED VOICES CRIME LETTERS POETRY COMPE TITION &RESULTS lR SUBSCRIPTION FORM IRBOOKSHOP 38 j ONATHAN KEATES ADMIRES PA INTED LADIES 39 40 42 SIM ON H EFFER A Hi sto ry of Br i tain: Th e Briti sh Wars 1 603-17 76 Simon Schama FRANK M c LYN N I nventing th e Victorians M a t th ew Sweet j EREMY BLA CK Th e Med i terran ea n in the Ancient World F e rnand Braudel 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 BEN S HEPHARD Soldiers Pbi l ip Ziegl e r D AV ID P ROFUMO Banvard's Folly Pa ul Coll i n s K AT HR YN HU GHE S Th e Corset: A Cultural H istory V a le ri e Ste e l e PATR ICK O 'CONNOR Man Ray 's Montparnasse H erber t Lottman j ANET GLEESON D eco rat ir1e Arts i n Britain 1500-1900 M i c h ae l Snodin and J ohn S t yles J OHN M cEWEN S ecret K11owl edge: R edi scove ring th e L ost T ec hniqu es of th e Old Ma ste rs D av i d H ockn ey H uco V ICKE R S A Pee rage for Trad e: A H is tory of th e Royal Warrant Tim Hea l d 52 P N FURBANK Zeno's Conscience l ta l o Sv evo 53 53 54 55 56 57 58 P AMELA N o RR tS Midd le Age : A R oman ce j oyce Caro l Oates SEBA ST IAN SHAK ESPEARE Th e Collected Shorter Fi ction J osep h Ro tb M IRANDA FRANCE Portra i t i n. Sepia l sabe l A! Jende S ARA H A SMITH 1 o Saints or Angels ! va n K l im a TERRY SAWYER Going Out Liv e M ark L aws on CHR ISTO PHER H ART City A l essa ndro Bar i cco SAM LEITH M e M e M e Dav i d Hu gg i n s 58 59 60 61 SUSAN CROSLAND SI OBHAN D owD PH ILIP 0 AKES 62 43 17 LORD C HALFONT is th e author of Montgo111ery of Ala111 ein , published in 1976 by W eidenfeld and Nicol so n. T IM M ACKINTOSH-SM ITH has li ve d in Yeme n for nin e tee n years and is th e author of Ye111en: Tr ave ls in Diaionary Land, availab le in pape rback from Pi cador. Hi s accla im ed Trave ls IIJit h a Tangerine: A j onru ey in th e Footnotes of l bn Battut ah was publi shed in Apri l by Jo h n Murra y. P N FuR.BANK is th e author of Iralo Svevo: The Man and The ~Vr ir e r (See ke r & Warburg 1966). SARAH ANDERSON fou n ded th e Travel Bookshop in 1979. H e r most r ecen t book is Im ide Notting H ill, w hi c h she publi shed he rse lf B EN SHEPHARD's A War of Ne r11e s Qonathan Cape £20) wil l be available in pap.erback from Pimli co in Febmary. A IDAN H ARTLEY h as cove red East Africa, includin g the Sudan ese c iv il war, as a j o urnalist and po litical analyst s in ce 1988. H e w rites the week ly 'Wild Life' co lumn for The Speaat<>r o nlin e (www.spectato r. co. uk). He was born in Kenya and lives with his fami ly in a remote ra nching distri ct northwest of Mount Kenya. H is new book, at the moment called Eurpry Q11arrer, will be published next year by HarperCollins . TERRY SAWYER 's hi sto r y of the di ese l-e lec tric locom o ti ve Power! is pub lish e d b y the Footpl a t e Press. H e breeds P o li s h c h i c k e n s i n Kirkintu ll oc h and is president of th e Law re nce Whelk Fan C lub . C HRI STO PH ER H ART, under th e pseudonym Wi lli am Napier, h as wri tten a ro ll icking b loc kb uste r of a novel ca ll ed )11/ia, se t in Britain in the las t days of t he R o m an Empire (H ea d lin e £9.99). Th e Literary R eview, inco rporating Quarto, is pub/is/red monthly fro/11: 44 Lex ington Street, London W1F OLW Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 '1844 ISSN 0144 4360 ©A ll subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary R ev iew Subscriptions, FREEPOST LON 17199 Lorrdon SW20 8BR Tel: 020 8545 2755 Fax: 020 8545 2756. UK Subscription Rate £3 0, Europe £36, res t of the world air mail only £50 (US$8 4) USA Airspeed subscription price is £36 (US 60) for per anmmr. Periodical pre-paid at Clramplaill NY (US PS 004218). A ll advertising e nq~tiries to: R obert Pomer, Litera ry Rer1iew, 44 Lexington Stree t, London WJF OLW Tel: 020 7437 9392 Prirrt ed by Simpsoll Drewetf & Co Ltd, 70 Sheen Road, Ric/111r ond, Surrey TW9 1UF Tel: 020 8940 7441 Fax: 020 8948 8749 Distributed to newsagents wo rldwide by COMAG Specia list, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton , Middlesex, UB7 7QX Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 Tel: 020 8986 4854 email : litrev@dircon.co .uk LITERARY REVIEW November 2001

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CONTENTS

THIS MONTH'S PULP IT is w rit te n by David Pryce-J ones, author of fiction and non-fiction , including Tire Closed Circle: A11 l111erpretntio11 of the Arabs.

ALISTAIR. HOR E's last book , How Far Jrot/1 A usterlitz? Napoleo11 18051815, is ava ilabl e from Papermac at £ 12 . His Seve11 A<~es of Paris will be pub l ished by M acmi ll an next autumn. While on warti m e military service, he was attached to M IS's Midd le East branch.

CAROL INE MOOil..EHEAD i s the autho r of Ou11a11t 's Drea m: ~Var , Swit zerlaud artd th e Hi story of th e Red Cross and, most recentl y, Iris Origo. She is working on a l ife of Martha Gellhorn.

VER.NON BOGDAN R. is the author of Devolutiou i11 th e Uuited Ki11gdom. H e is c urren tl y writi ng a book about the British onst i tution for A li en Lane The Penguin Press .

RI CHARD GOTT is working on a book about Cuba for Yale University Press.

jE SS ICA MA s Han<~ing Fire is avai lable in paperback thi s month from Allison & Busby.

J OHN McEwE 's monograph of M ic h ae l San del will be published in th e Spring.

HER. IDAN M ORLEY is the drama c riti c of the l 11t ematio11al H era ld Trib1111 e. Hi s authorised Giel g ud biography, j olt11 C, has sold out of three hardback editions this year and will shortly be avai lable as a paperbac k and an audiotape. His pertator nr th e Theatre has just been publi shed by Oberon.

PULPIT

PATRIOTS & T RAITORS

BIOGRAPHY

ADVENTURERS

INTERVIEW

BELLES LETTRES

1

DAVID PR.YCE-J ONES

4 5

7

V ER.NON BOGDA NOR Ch11rchill Roy J enkins ALUN CHALFONT The Full Monty: Morttgomery of Alamei11 1887-1942 Nige l H ami l ton FRA IS KIN G Arrtlrony Blunt: Hi s Lives Miranda Carter

9 BRENDA MADD OX The Partklt~~rsts Martin Pugh 10 RI CHARD GOTT Sen ior Service Carlo Feltrine lli 12 ANDR.EW LYCETT Peggy Cuggenheim: The L ife of an Art

Addict Anton G ill 13 SHER.I DAN M ORl.EY Stan and Ollie: The Root s of Co tnedy

Simo n Louvi s h

14 SARAH ANDERSON Cherry Sara Wheeler 16 J W M THOMPSON Storyteller: The Many Lives of

Laurens van der Po st J D F ]on es

18 SEBA TIAN SHAKESPEARE TALKS TO j G BALLARD

23 DJ TAYLOR Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984 J a mes

Lees-Miln e 24 J ESS ICA MA N Ups and Dow11 s Frances Partridge 25 PETER WA SH IN GTON The Plrilosop lry of Sa rttll e! Becket f J ohn

Ca lder Ho w It Wa s: A Mwroir of amttel Beckett Anne Atik

LETTER FROM YEMEN 27 TIM MACKI TOSH-SMITH

OPPRESSION

MEMOIRS

28 AID AN HARTL EY Tire W ee kertders Alex Garland , W F

Deedes, l rvin e Welsh , Giles Foden , Victoria Glendinning , Tony H awks, Andrew O'Hagan 29 j ONAT HAN MlR KY Burma: T he C urse of I ndependence

S h e lb y Tu c ker Th e H eart Must Break: The Fig ht for D e111ocra cy and Tmth in B11rma J ames Mawdsley

30 ALISTAIR H ORNE Open Secret: The Autobiography of Tire

Former Direc tor - Cweral of M I5 Stella Rimington 32 ALAN WATKIN S Betty Bootlrroyd: Tir e Autobiography 33 ANTH ONY DANIEl.S Uncle Turtgst en: Memoirs of a

Clremical Boyhood Oliver Sacks 35 CAROLINE MOOREHEAD The Dress ing Statio11: A

Surgeon's Odyssey J onathan Kaplan 35 CHRISTOPHER 0NDAATJE Wildlife Wars Richard Leak ey a n d Virginia Morell 37 jAMES DELl GPOLE Daydrea /11 Beli eve r Hu gh M assingberd

Editor: NA CV SLADEK Depwy Editor: THOMAS HODGKI SON Editorial Assistatlf: CHARLIE AMPBELL

General Assistant: ELEANOR PEERS Comribu ting Editor: SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEAlli Brtsirtess & Advertisi11g Manager: R.OBERT POSNER

Fou11dirtg Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Foundi11g Fat/r er: AUBERON WAUGH

Cover illit stmtioll by Clrris Ridde/1

Isme no. 281

LITERARY REVIEW November 2001

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